DevOps Job Trends in Swansea

DevOps
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 24 5 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 8.05% 10.87% 17.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.65% 13.89% 21.71%
Number of salaries quoted 24 5 29
10th Percentile - - £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £40,808
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,124 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.25% +0.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £53,762 £52,500
90th Percentile £72,625 - £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £51,250 £50,124 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.25% +0.25% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 206 36 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.13% 78.26% 80.42%
Number of salaries quoted 134 26 134
10th Percentile £35,000 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -18.20% +13.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,762 £57,000
90th Percentile £78,800 £59,857 £69,921
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +10.42%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Swansea

DevOps
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Swansea over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Swansea

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (79.17%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) Datadog
6 1 (4.17%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) GitLab
3 2 (8.33%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.17%) Mocha
4 1 (4.17%) Newman
4 1 (4.17%) Postman
4 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.17%) RSpec
4 1 (4.17%) TestRail
4 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (37.50%) Junior
1 9 (37.50%) Junior DevOps
1 9 (37.50%) Junior DevOps Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) React Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) React
2 4 (16.67%) Node.js
2 4 (16.67%) RESTful
2 4 (16.67%) Spring
2 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (12.50%) .NET
3 3 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (8.33%) Blazor
4 2 (8.33%) CSS
4 2 (8.33%) CSS3
4 2 (8.33%) HTML
4 2 (8.33%) HTML5
4 2 (8.33%) Jest
4 2 (8.33%) ML.NET
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) Playwright
5 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) AIX
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Scrum
2 8 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (25.00%) Kanban
5 5 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 5 (20.83%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (16.67%) IT Strategy
6 4 (16.67%) Observability
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.50%) Culture Change
7 3 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.50%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (12.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Ruby
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) Bicep
4 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Go
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) CBAP
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) WCAG
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Google
2 2 (8.33%) OneLogin
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle